Is Alan Moore Insane?

In V For Vendetta we care, not about V himself but about Evey, the woman he saves and introduces to the world. We care also about the woman who wrote the letter to V while he was imprisoned, which V passed onto Evey.

We even understood the people who had been the bad guys, the corrupt government and their quest for safety and truth and their love of order, the very thing V had wanted to destroy. Alan Moore hadn’t intended for some US film makers to come along and make an allegory out of his film to discuss their disapproval of the Bush administration. His intent was clear. He was afraid of Fascism in his own country when he heard politicians talking about putting gay men and women into concentration camps.

Lost Girls, a pornographic book he wrote with artist Melinda Gebbie (who later became his wife) is about the sexual hang ups people develop based on their introductions to the world of sex as children. He took characters from classic stories and found sex, often in the form of abuse, and how it shaped girls into women.

His other works, such as From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Promethea, Miracle Man and such feature people in difficult situations overcoming surmountable odds and are often deep in historical accuracies. Swamp Thing features some of the most brilliant writing I have ever seen and gave warmth and humanity to a creature that would otherwise be the Scary Monster of a b horror film.

This is the face of madness and his name is Alan Moore. He dares to take people on as they are rather than see the stiff ideologies that so many of us hide behind. He doesn’t believe that people are all good or all evil, but rather that people are problematic and that they do what they think is best. He often tries to figure out why people think the way they do and that is what makes his stories far better than anything else out there.